Beata Szydlo

Beata Szydlo (15 April 1963-) was Prime Minister of Poland from 16 November 2015 to 11 December 2017, succeeding Ewa Kopacz and preceding Mateusz Morawiecki. She was a member of the conservative Law and Justice party.

Biography
Beata Szydlo was born in Oswiecim, Poland on 15 April 1963, and she graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1989, studying ethnography. She was elected Mayor of Gmina Brzeszcze at the age of 35, serving as a Law and Justice politician, and she was elected to the Sejm in September 2005. In 2014, she became Treasurer of Law and Justice, and she stood as the party's 2015 candidate for Prime Minister during the parliamentary elections. Szydlo was sworn in on 16 November 2015, and her brief premiership was marked by familial growth incentives, Euroscepticism, and anti-immigration laws. In 2017, she resigned due to a constitutional crisis, and Mateusz Morawiecki succeeded her as PM.